Re: Removal of S.h (was: Re: R 4.2.0 suggests a rebuild of graphics packages)
Hi Johannes
On Mon, 25 Apr 2022 at 11:22, Johannes Ranke <johannes.ranke@jrwb.de> wrote:
> Regarding the removal of S.h, the R 4.2.0 NEWS file states:
>
> * The header S.h which has been unsupported since Jan 2016 has been
> removed. Use R.h instead.
>
> This suggests that R core sees this as a bug in (bioconductor) packages still
> using S.h, and not as an API change.
>
> It seems to me, the situation being as it is, the easiest way to fix
> bioconductor in unstable and testing is to upload the new versions scheduled
> for April 27 before r-base migrates to testing. Not exactly clean, but bumping
> the API now would require managing a transition and rebuilding hundreds of
> packages that do not have an issue, right?
Agreed, I don't think we want or need an r-api-* bump for this change.
Besides, r-base will not be allowed to migrate due to autopkgtest
failures anyway, so we will just have to wait for the r-bioc-*
transition.
> > we can delay the creation of r-ge-api-*
> > which might be discussed if this and only this is needed.
Why delay the creation of r-ge-api-*? If it will help future
transitions, I think now would be a good time to add it, seeing we
already have to investigate which packages will need it.
Regards
Graham
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